Contents

Preface IX

Notes on Contributors xii

1 Empire and Legal Thought: An Introduction 1

Edward Cavanagh

2 The First �Lawyers'? Judicial Offices, Administration and Legal Pluralism in Ancient Egypt, ca.

Alexandre A. Loktionov

3 After the Empire: Judicial Review and Athenian Interstate Relations in the Age of Demosthenes, 354-22 BCE 69

Alberto Esu

4 Public Law and Republican Empire in Rome, 200-27 BCE 105

Clifford Ando

5 Compromise and Coercion: Imperial Motives behind Justinianic Legislation in Sixth-Century Constantinople 125

Halcyon Weber

6 Muslims and Non-Orthodox Christians in Byzantine Law

until ca. 1100 167

Zachary Chitwood

7 Roman Public Law in the Twelfth Century: Politics, Jurisprudence, and Reverence for Antiquity 189

Emanuele Conte

8 Iusgentium: The Metamorphoses of a Legal Concept (Ancient Rome to Early Modern Europe) 213

Dante Fedele

9 �Exiit edictum a Caesare Augusto ut describeretur universus orbis' (Luke 2:1-2): Debating Imperial Authority in Late Medieval Legal and Political Thought (12th-14th Centuries) 252

Tiziana Faitini

10 Ideas of Empire in the Thought of the Late Medieval Roman Law Jurists 280

Joseph Canning

11 Medieval Pisa as a Colonial Laboratory in the Historiographical

Imagination of the Early Twentieth Century 300

Lorenzo Veracini

12 Open and Closed Seas: The Grotius-Selden Dialogue at the Heart of Liberal Imperialism 322

Mark Somos

13 Littoral Leviathan: Histories of Oceans, Laws, and Empires 362

Matthew Crow

14 From Procedural Law to the �Rights of Humanity': Habeas Corpus, Ex parte Somerset (1771-72), and the Movement toward Collective Representation in Early British Antislavery Cases 388

Sarah Winter

15 Prerogative and Office in Pre-Revolutionary New York: Feudal Legalism,

Land Patenting, and Sir William Johnson, Indian Superintendent (1756-1774) 425

P.G. McHugh

16 The Pure Reason of Lex Scripta: Jurisprudential Philology and the

Domain of Instituted Laws during Early British Colonial Rule in India (1770s-1820s) 462

Naveen Kanalu

17 James Bryce's Home Rule Constitutionalism and Victorian Historiography 492

Jordan Rudinsky

18 Crown, Conquest, Concession, and Corporation: British Legal Ideas and

Institutions in Matabeleland and Southern Rhodesia, 1889-1919 520

Edward Cavanagh

19 British War Office Manuals and International Law, 1899-1907 548

Lia Brazil

20 Reich, Imperium, Empire: Carl Schmitt and the �Overcoming of the Concept of the State' 578

Joshua Smeltzer

General Index 603

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